Research Article

A Fast Interpretation Method for Inverse Modeling of Residual Gravity Anomalies Caused by Simple Geometry

Table 2

Numerical results of the present method applied to the horizontal cylinder synthetic example ( 𝑞 = 1 . 0 , 𝑧 = 4  km, and 𝐴 = 3 0 0  mGal * km; profile length = 20 km; sampling interval = 1 km) without and with 10% random noise.

𝑀 (km)Using synthetic dataUsing data with 10% random errors
Computed depth (km)Computed shape factorComputed amplitude factor (mGal)Computed depth (km)Computed shape factorComputed amplitude factor (mGal)

2.004.001.00300.004.661.19350.25
3.004.001.00300.004.181.12349.38
4.004.001.00300.004.151.11327.14
5.004.001.00300.004.001.03331.93
6.004.001.00300.004.051.06362.68
7.004.001.00300.003.780.93336.27
8.004.001.00300.004.001.03329.87
9.004.001.00300.004.281.01318.85
10.004.001.00300.004.491.11350.93

Average (km)4.001.00300.004.171.07339.69

Percent of error0.000.000.004.257.0013.23